>Is there a way to temporarily Hide everything on a form, while I populate Tab pages, grids, controls etc. (which takes about 1 to 2 seconds)
>There is a lot of flickering going on and it would be neater if I could stop this form being visible to the user
>I've tried SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout but it does not hide all the flickering
>Tia
>Gerard

Maybe this will help: http://www.bobpowell.net/doublebuffer.htm